Red sandalwood is a plant. The heartwood is used as medicine. The tree grows as a wild plant in Chittoor and kadapa districts of Andhra Pradesh and found in some packets of adjoining state of Tamil Nadu also.

The area is characterised by hot dry climate with around 100mm of rain in each of the two annual monsoons. The trees are found in dry hill areas of Palakonda range. The heartwood, useful parat of plant is extremely hard, blood red in colour with occasional light yellow streaks.

Red Sanders OR red sandalwood is only found in the South, in India. This wood has been traditionally used as a sacred wood in religious functions and during pujas, havans[homas] purpose. Red Chandan is also used in ayurvedic medicine.

In a Red sandalwood tree (unlike white sandalwood), the wood at the center of the trunk (heartwood) is mainly used for medical purposes.